Detectives in the North are continuing to question five men over the murder of policeman Ronan Kerr, who was blown up by dissident republicans earlier this year.

Hopes of an end to rioting in Belfast were growing today after a night which was free from trouble.

Three men are due in court today to face a series of terrorist charges linked to a cache of suspected dissident republican firearms recovered Armagh.

Security forces in the North were placed on full alert tonight amid fears that dissident republicans could unleash an Easter offensive.

Police investigating the murder of Constable Ronan Kerr have charged a man with terrorism offences.

Police in the North have been given almost seven extra days to question a man over the murder of Constable Ronan Kerr.

The mother of a Catholic police officer murdered in the North tonight said his death should not be in vain as she urged others to join the force.

A young Catholic police officer murdered by a booby-trap car bomb in the North had only recently graduated from training college.

A DEPRAVED sexual predator who was abusing a teenage babysitter killed himself and the rest of his family in a deliberate house fire because his partner threatened to leave him, a coroner ruled yesterday.

WHEN it comes to the price of a pint in Ireland, size matters — the smaller, the better.

Political leaders were united today in demanding the capture of the Real IRA gunmen who shot dead two British soldiers outside an army barracks.

A blaze which is feared to have killed seven members of a family in the North's worst house fire tragedy may have been started deliberately, it emerged tonight.

A candidate in the North's Assembly elections was tonight being questioned about the attempted murder of a soldier more than 25 years ago.

Eminent playwright Brian Friel joked as he received the Aosdana’s highest honour today that it was like being read the last rites.

Two people were today feared dead in a British army helicopter crash in Derry, security sources said.

Two men understood to have connections with the outlawed Real IRA terrorist group were being questioned today in Limerick.

Omagh bomb victims are today meeting the Northern Ireland Policing Board in the latest round in the row over the investigation into the atrocity.